LITTLE SLIPS OF SCHOOLBOYS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

LITTLE SLIPS OF SCHOOLBOYS.

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR. The schoolboy “howler'’ is always popular. " The following selection rrom a large number which were sent ju ior a prize competition are excellent examples of the mistakes which pupus perpetrate: — . . Women’s suffrage is the state c; sintering to which tliey were born. The earth is an obsolete spherical. Lord Raleigh was the first man to see the Invisible Armada. Shakespeare founded “As rou Inae It” on a book previously written oy Sir Oliver Lodge. ... Tennyson wrote “In Me mo r a noun:. King Edward IV. had no chum by geological right to the English throne. “ George Eliot left a wife and clnidren to mourn his genii. The capital of Russia is St. i'etersbur«“ on the Duma. . The Test Act of 1673 was passea to keep Roman Catholics out of publichouses. • . Hcnrv I. died of eating palire_»r. Louis XVI. was gelatined during tho French Revolution. The Rhine is boarded by wooden mountains. Gender shows whether a man is masculine, feminine, or neuter. James I. died from argue. An angle is a triangle with only two sides. Algebraical symbols are used wnon you don’t, know what you are talking about. Geometry teaches us how to Msrr. angels. Parallel lines arc the same distance all the wav, and do not meet unless you bend them. . . The whale as an amphibious anixmi because it lives on land and dies in the water. A parallelogram is a figure mace four parallel straight lines. Horse power is the distance one horsecan carry a pound of water in an horn. The magnesium salt in the sea creates the effervescence when the tide comes in. . .. _ r , If the air contains more than K'j per cent, of carbolic acid it is very injurious to health. , Gravitation is that which it there were none we should all fly away. The Press to-day is the mouth organ of the people. A vacuum is a large empty spa where the Pope lives. Martin Harvey invented tne circulation of the blood. A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian. The isles of Greece were always quarrelling as to which was the birth-place of Homer; Chaos has the most right to claim him.